Where Carrot Farming and Covid-Teaching Collide
August 5, 2020 ~ Welcome to the Carrot Farmer Memoirs ~ page. 1 😏 This coming week begins my 16th year as a public school teacher. More than anything in the whole wide world, my one true passion is being a classroom teacher. I teach the wide-eye wonderful toothless grins of first graders. Except, this year... their toothless grins will be hidden behind masks. They won't be allowed to sit beside each other unless they're masked, and they won't be able to see each other's smiles, unless they're 6-feet apart. That's become the new mantra, Amaste ~ 6-feet away. 👲👸 I'd rather our new mantra be... i don't like it ~ not. one. bit. Teaching in # post-school-spring-shutdown- covid- 2020 mode is, most likely, going to be one of the most challenging, heart-wrenching, mind-boggling things that I've ever done in my life. P age after page of district guidelines & procedures that we'll have to follow, with very little supp...